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Local Childhoods, Global Issues Heather Montgomery (The Open University) 9781447305835
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $29.55Although the plight of children can sometimes seem grim, there are positive indicators. This interdisciplinary textbook examines children's lives across the world, acknowledging the great differences as well as points of comparison, between childhoods in... -
Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl 9780300192407
Booksplease Price: $25.10A seminal volume on prejudice against children for parents, teachers, psychologists, social workers, policy-makers-anyone concerned with the crucial subject of child welfare. In this groundbreaking volume on the human rights of children, acclaimed... -
Child Neglect: Planning and Intervention by Jan Horwath 9780230206663
Booksplease Price: $45.83Neglect is the most common form of child maltreatment in developed countries and it comes in many forms. From evaluating the effects of neglect on the child to looking at root causes, this wide-ranging book offers evidence-based, practical guidance to... -
Children and Young People's Worlds by Heather Montgomery
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $28.59This substantially updated new edition sets out the contexts of children's and young people's lives and encourages students to explore their complexities and contexts. Each chapter challenges students' assumptions and examines crucial issues in the... -
Books and the People Who Make Them Stephanie Vernet 9783791375496
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.68This unique, fun and informative introduction to the publishing world shows young readers how a book makes its journey from the writer's notebook to the reader's hands. What's missing from the world of children's books? A book about how a book gets... -
Childhood Unplugged: Practical Advice to Get Kids Off Screens and Find Balance by Katherine Johnson Martinko
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.04Ditch the devices and bring back the magic of being a kid Screens are everywhere. Children spend an average of 7.5 hours on digital devices every day with profoundly negative consequences. While some tech may "amplify" real-life experience, the vast... -
The Nervous Dragon: A Story About Overcoming Back-to-School Worries by DK 9780241661765
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $6.15From DK's best-selling First Seasonal Stories series, comes a new magical adventure for any little dragon getting ready to start school! Soar down to Mrs Scales Academy for Dragons and meet a nervous dragon who learns to embrace new experiences. It's... -
Mentoring and Coaching in Early Childhood Education by Michael Gasper 9781350100725
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $34.91This book provides an introduction to the theory and practice of mentoring, coaching and supervision in the context of early childhood education and care. Written by a team of scholars from the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and the USA the book... -
Researching with Children and Young People: Research Design, Methods and Analysis by Kay Tisdall 9781412923897
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $56.02'This text will be of great use to postgraduate researchers in education, social work and nursing, and any practitioner involved in carrying out research with children and young people' - CPD Update '[T]here is a sense of newness and innovation about the... -
The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America by Sandra Fox
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $26.37In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they considered authentic Jewish culture, fearful that growing affluence and suburbanization threatened the future of Jewish life... -
Empowerment and Participation in Youth Work by Annette Fitzsimons 9781844453474
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $42.16In today's society, many young people feel marginalised and unable to find their own voice. It is vital therefore that youth workers are able to work with them to tackle this in a meaningful way. Drawing on the real experiences and difficulties faced by... -
Childhood, Youth and Activism: Demands for Rights and Justice from Young People and their Advocates by Katie Wright 9781801174695
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $91.36In a time of ongoing global instability and the emergence of new fault lines of social inequality generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the rights of children and young people have been thrown into sharp relief. From uncertain futures arising from the... -
Young People, Crime and Justice Roger Hopkins Burke 9781138776623
RRP: $55.46Booksplease Price: $49.28In the minds of the general public, young people and crime are intrinsically linked; wide-spread belief persists that such activities are a result of the 'permissive 1960s' and the changing face of the traditional nuclear family. Roger Hopkins Burke... -
The Nature of Adolescence by John C. Coleman 9780415564205
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $36.34The fourth edition of this successful textbook provides an up-to-date introduction to all of the key features of adolescent development. While drawing on the North American literature on adolescence, it highlights European perspectives and also provides... -
Medieval Children by Nicholas Orme 9780300097542
Booksplease Price: $59.03What was childhood like for medieval boys and girls in England? How were children named and brought up, what hazards faced them, what games did they play, and how were they prepared for adulthood? This richly detailed book provides for the first time a... -
A European Youth Revolt: European Perspectives on Youth Protest and Social Movements in the 1980s by Bart van der Steen 9781349552306
Booksplease Price: $59.24During the early 1980s, large parts of Europe were swept with riots and youth revolts. Radicalised young people occupied buildings and clashed with the police in cities such as Zurich, Berlin and Amsterdam, while in Great Britain and France, 'migrant'... -
Childhood and Society by Michael Wyness 9781137514844
Booksplease Price: $44.58The new edition of this established core textbook continues to give an insightful, authoritative and accessible overview of competing theoretical positions on the sociological study of childhood. The book explores the ways these theories inform key... -
Child Observation for Learning and Research Theodora Papatheodorou 9781405824675
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $53.34Child Observation for Learning and Research is an exciting new text, providing a thorough grounding in the methodology, practice and interpretation of observing children.The authors draw on their experience and expertise in childcare, education, social... -
Truth About Children and Divorce: Dealing with the Emotions So You and Your Children Can Thrive by Robert E. Emery
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $14.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Books for a Better Life (Psychology) 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780452287167Author Robert E. EmeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PlumePublisher... -
Supernormal: The Secret World of the Family Hero by Meg Jay 9781455559138
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455559138Author Meg JayFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint FaithWordsPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 206mm *... -
Global Childhoods by Monica Edwards 9781909682696
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.76This up to date text is suitable for students on all early years courses that include a module on global childhoods. Taking an ecological approach, it examines how culture and society shape childhoods through considering the lived experiences of children... -
Grassroots Youth Work: Policy, Passion and Resistance in Practice Tania De St Croix (Kings College London) 9781447328605
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $28.20The voices of grassroots youth workers are rarely heard in policy, research or public debate. This book paints a picture of passionate practitioners who build meaningful relationships with marginalised young people, at a time when their practice is... -
Innovation in Social Care: New Approaches for Young People Affected by Extra-Familial Risks and Harms Michelle Lefevre (University of Sussex) 9781447371236
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.58Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-BD licence. Based on the findings of the Innovate Project, a four year pan-UK study to identify the processes of innovation in care, this book asks: how can services be re-envisioned and transformed through... -
Doing Research with Children: A Practical Guide by Tommy MacKay 9780857028860
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $55.46This Third Edition of Doing Research with Children is practical introduction to the process of designing, doing and writing up research with children and young people. At the centre is a commitment to engaging with children and young people as active... -
Youth Sociology by Alan France 9781137490414
Booksplease Price: $44.58Falling somewhere between childhood and adulthood, 'Youth' is a key period of transition. It can be difficult to define and make sense of this period in one's life.However it is categorised, young people face a number of challenges and issues growing up... -
Beyond listening: Children's perspectives on early childhood services by Alison Clark 9781861346124
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $26.30More young children than ever before are spending their time in some form of early childhood service. But how do we know what they think about it? While there has been a move to take children's views into account more generally, very little attention has... -
Parental Conflict: Outcomes and Interventions for Children and Families Jenny Reynolds 9781447315810
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $22.14There is increasing government recognition of the importance of early family experiences on individuals in the long term and of how inter-parental conflict influences children's development. Recognition of the role of such factors early in life is key to... -
Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls by Melinda Tankard Reist 9781876756758
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $16.76Girls are portrayed as sexual at younger ages, pressured to conform to a 'thin, hot, sexy' norm. Clothing, music, magazines, toys and games send girls the message that they are merely the sum of their body parts. The effects of prematurely sexualising... -
Children's Social and Emotional Wellbeing in Schools: A Critical Perspective Debbie Watson (School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol) 9781847425133
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $31.06This book challenges the concept of wellbeing as applied to children, particularly in a school-based context. Taking a post-structural approach, it suggests that wellbeing should be understood, and experiences revealed, at the level of the subjective... -
Parenting at the Intersections: Raising Neurodivergent Children of Color by Jaya Ramesh 9781641608893
RRP: $23.16Booksplease Price: $14.99What if parenting were an act of social justice? In this part story-telling, part self-inquiry book, authors and therapists Jaya Ramesh and Priya Saaral situate parenting children of colour with neurodivergence within the context of various... -
Excessive Appetites: A Psychological View of Addictions by Jim Orford 9780471982319
RRP: $104.43Booksplease Price: $91.41This eagerly awaited new edition of Excessive Appetites will offeryou a complete and comprehensive revision of this classic text inthe field of addictions. Covering a wide variety of different forms of addiction fromalcohol, tobacco and other drugs,... -
Child Development: A First Course Kathy Sylva (University of Oxford) 9780631194293
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $34.84This book provides a straightforward introduction to child development. It also covers the methods and problems of research into children, and the application of new findings in practical life.About the AuthorKathy Sylva is Professor of Child Development... -
Growing Up in a Culture of Respect: Child Rearing in Highland Peru by Inge Bolin
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.66Far from the mainstream of society, the pastoral community of Chillihuani in the high Peruvian Andes rears children who are well-adjusted, creative, and curious. They exhibit superior social and cognitive skills and maintain an attitude of respect for... -
Social Work with Older People by Mo Ray 9780230300477
Booksplease Price: $45.25Revised to emphasise the current policy drive towards personalisation and service user participation in care management, the new edition of Social Work with Older People remains an insightful introductory text. Deliberately taking a critical approach to... -
Children, young people and social inclusion: Participation for what? by Kay Tisdall 9781861346629
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $28.20This book asks how far and in what way social inclusion policies are meeting the needs and rights of children and young people. Leading authors write from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines including social policy, education, geography and... -
Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing by Leigh Gilmore
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $25.28When more than 150 women testified in 2018 to the sexual abuse inflicted on them by Dr. Larry Nassar when they were young, competitive gymnasts, they exposed and transformed the conditions that shielded their violation, including the testimonial... -
Child-Centred Social Work: Theory and Practice by Vivienne Barnes
Booksplease Price: $41.60With an emphasis on professional expectations, values and practice skills such as building trust, listening and advocacy, this textbook helps enable social workers base their practice with children and young people on a truly child-centred model. Drawing... -
Key Thinkers in Childhood Studies Carmel Smith (Carlow College) 9781447308072
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $89.73Key Thinkers in Childhood Studies presents the contrasting perspectives of some of the leading figures involved in shaping the field of Childhood Studies over the last 30 years. Using in-depth interviews, twenty-two high profile pioneers, who represent a... -
The Well-Being of Children in the UK Jonathan Bradshaw (Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York) 9781447325635
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $32.39Now in its fourth edition, this is the classic assessment of the state of child well-being in the United Kingdom. This edition has been updated to review the latest evidence, examining the outcomes for children of the impact of the economic crisis and... -
Haircuts by Children, and Other Evidence for a New Social Contract by Darren O'Donnell 9781552453377
Booksplease Price: $19.76We live in an "adultitarian" state, where the rules are based on very adult priorities and understandings of reality. Young people are disenfranchised and powerless; they understand they're subject to an authoritarian regime, whether they buy into it or...